Cartografía de inundaciones en la planificación territorial. Estudio comparado entre Argentina y España

Abstract

Flood risk management has gained new prominence thanks to the incorporation of cartographic tools in spatial planning. Flood risk mapping has been incorporated in several countries as an important piece when it comes to planning new land uses. Thus, traditional flood risk reduction measures based on structural measures have been enriched with the incorporation of risk mapping as an argument for legal accreditation in land use planning. This paper analyzes the application of flood risk mapping in land use planning in Argentina and Spain. The analysis is focused on the use of cartographic documents to certify risk levels at a local scale. These are two countries that have opted for the elaboration of risk mapping in the processes of assigning land uses. Although the results of their implementation are different in relation to the existence of regulatory regulations for these processes and the different administrative scales with competences in spatial planning and urban planning. In both cases, it is verified that the flood map in urban processes is understood as a hazard map, without integrating, except for specific examples, vulnerability analysis in the territories under planning.